Intel Core i9-12900H vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Core i9-12900H vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945HX beats the Core i9-12900H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i9-12900H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i9-12900H has 14 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-12900H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-12900H. Also, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-12900H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 8945HX CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i9-12900H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.